The past, present, and future of resulting trusts

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dc.contributor.authorMee, John
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-05T15:40:11Z
dc.date.available2024-03-02T12:03:36Zen
dc.date.available2024-03-05T15:40:11Z
dc.date.issued2017-08-30
dc.date.updated2024-03-02T12:03:38Zen
dc.description.abstractThis article considers the nature and future of resulting trusts, and offers a critique of the Birks/Chambers theory of resulting trusts. It argues that the current law cannot be explained, as the Birks/Chambers theory suggests, on the basis of the reversal of unjust enrichment. Instead, the law of resulting trusts is based on an old fiction whereby the owner of property is regarded as holding a beneficial interest which may be retained when the legal ownership has been transferred to another person. Unfortunately, this ‘retention’ idea does not provide a doctrinally satisfying justification for the current law. A logical response would be to discard those aspects of the law of resulting trusts that depend on the retention idea and, therefore, to dispense with presumed resulting trusts. The article argues that, in fact, in English law the purchase-money resulting trust has already been made irrelevant by the common intention constructive trust. However, the article argues for the continued recognition of gap-filling (i.e. ‘automatic’) resulting trusts on the basis that an alternative justification can be identified for such trusts.
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dc.identifier.citationMee, J. (2017) 'The past, present, and future of resulting trusts', Current Legal Problems, 70(1), pp. 189-225. https://doi.org/10.1093/clp/cux003
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1093/clp/cux003
dc.identifier.eissn2044-8422
dc.identifier.endpage225
dc.identifier.issn0070-1998
dc.identifier.issued1
dc.identifier.journaltitleCurrent Legal Problems
dc.identifier.startpage189
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15629
dc.identifier.volume70
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.rights© 2017, John Mee. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Current Legal Problems, following peer review. The version of record [Mee, J. (2017) 'The past, present, and future of resulting trusts', Current Legal Problems, 70(1), pp. 189-225] is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/clp/cux003
dc.subjectResulting trusts
dc.subjectBirks/Chambers theory of resulting trusts
dc.subjectUnjust enrichment
dc.titleThe past, present, and future of resulting trusts
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)
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